NoteIcon: SessionNote
Session: 23 
Party: The Bear Blasters 
Date: 18-05-2023
QuickNotes: Tabitha hears voices. Ridley goes shopping. The party heads to Balor to meet with Silda & Celia
LocationBuilding: 
WardOrRegion: "[[The Great Black]]"
Continent: "[[Tolak]]"
Contact: "[[Silda]]"
Reward:
  - N/A 
Status: In progress 
NewLeads:
  - Werewolf tormenting nearby farms in [[The Great Black]]<br>Celia is connected to [[The Garnet Hand]] Copy

Location

Contact

Job

Head to Balor for work

Lead

Silda has a job available

Key Events 

• Tabitha wakes at the Temple of Olo, where her meditations are disturbed by a voice she'd convinced herself wasn't real saying

  "Finally getting somewhere!"

• Goodie takes Kindle away for a job
• The party heads to 🏫 High Hall to speak to Kelrock & Evangeline regarding Loravor being off-continent. Kelrock offers a bounty on Loravor for 1600gp, Dead of Alive
• Miraren visits the Undercellar, where the bartender calls out. He hands Miraren a letter from the Big Boss in a purple envelope with a Garnet Hand wax seal. the letter reads

  Offer sounds interesting. Send word when you've spoken with Celia

  • L. G. H

• The Garnet Hand has set up an encampment in Rotnar Reach. There is mention of "Fur People"
• Ridley purchases some items:
  • General Store: 12 x candles @ 1sp, 2cp
  • Butcher: Offcuts @ 1sp & a vial of blood
  • 🛒 Goodie's Convenience :
    • 2 x Potion of Healing @ 100gp
    • Cloak of Billowing @ 75gp
• Tabitha collects Twiggy (who has more leaves!) & the horse and cart from Becky's place
• The party heads to Balor
• Day 1
  • Third watch: The air seems to shift, blue haze over Tabitha's vision. A 'pop' sound reveals an imp, which Tabitha dispatches easily

• Day 2
  • Ridley dreams of "Della" & "Rueben" in an office. He's a love guru. Mr & Mrs ---. The room lights up and he wakes in searing pain
• Day 3
  • Miraren's rest is disturbed by a screeching bird. He takes a point of Exhaustion
• The party reaches Balor.
• A small male humanoid is waving his coin purse around at the docks. Introduces himself as Lanryn Pimplemimple Magicman Sparklestaff III and says he's looking for passage on a boat.
• Miraren attempts to steal his coin purse, but the Exhaustion gets the better of him
• The party heads to 🍺 The Golden Dragon Tavern, the publican of which is a 6 ft. tall Dragonborn named Collis.
• He offers 2 rooms for 8sp per room, and reminds that Celia can be strict and we shouldn't ask too many questions. He mentions that we'll find Silda at the General Store 🛒 The Dirty Wagon
• Silda is a blonde woman with hazel eyes who leads the party back into a lounge area behind the store. She introduces Kracka, the adopted Kenku child of Silda & Celia
• Silda is offering 1000gp per person for someone to find out about Celia's past.
• Celia came to Tolak with no memory of her past, but kept mentioning The Dominion of Kagal and Sedvioth Crofkeve. The only other known thing about her is that her last name is Mon-something
• Silda gives the party a writ of passage to see Celia
• There is a big hole in Balor from a War Machine crashing
• Pirates of Golden Banner formed over 1000 years ago, (something about the Silver Tongue, I dunno, I'm not very clear)
• Celia lead a rebellion against the former leader of the Golden Banner and put his head on a pike before having him cremated
• Celia is of Drow descent, tall with white, pupil-less eyes, and black veins. She wears a black and gold tricord hat the Golden Banner symbol

• Celia remembers:
  • being surrounded by Garnet Hand members.
  • Sedvioth Crofkeve is drow, has bright blue eyes and a scar from a stab wound at his temple.
  • Purple pyramid gem.
  • Stabbing, needle-like pain in the temple.
  • Waking up in a house with Silda.
  • Falling a long way off a cliff.
  • Pitch black sky of Alabi.
  • Being friendly with members of The Garnet Hand
  • Her eyes had been a different colour

Outcome

Loot

New Leads

Quest Status

To Do List

• Investigate Celia's past